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In article <1993Jan25.224536.680@mcs.kent.edu>, sscott@mcs.kent.edu (Stephen Scott) writes:

|> difference between running/jogging and walking/race-walking.  This has
|> to do with the stride.

By definition, walking has both feet on the ground for a portion of the
stride, i.e., the number of feet on the ground varies between 1 and 2,
while running involves jumping thru the air, i.e., the number of feet on
the ground varies between 0 and 1.

In formal race-walking, the rules generally also require that the knee 
must lock during the part of the stride where one leg is in the middle of
its time on the ground and the body is right over that leg.  Frank Shorter
once criticized race walking as a competition, since the winner turns
out to be the person who can come closest to violating the rules as judged
by whoever is the official of the day.

Amongst all the silly definitions for jogging, I once read a major guru
attempt a serious technical definition.  (I think it was Joe Henderson)
This definition is the relative time spent with a foot on the ground versus
jumping thru the air, and 50/50 is the threshold.

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